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thebox wrote:
> Yeah, I though about something like that, but I've also realised that
> it's probably better to stick with the ruby interpreter and bridge to
> java when needed rather than viceversa. I may be wrong, of course.
> 

Erm. -Technically-, that's what JRuby is all about. A Ruby interpreter
with an integrated Java bridge. It's just that the direct integration is
/ will be probably less iffy if you a) can bear with the Ruby
implementation per se lagging (for now?) in completeness / stability,
and b) need a lot of it (as you would in this case, with rake driving
the build process, and the ant tasks doing the heavy lifting, as I
imagine things). There's probably less integration gotchas involved as
with Java bridges that have two garbage collectors running in parallel.

> Apart from the pleasure of working with ruby, if there was a make for
> groovy, with real file dependencies, I would have probably chosen that
> (ant task can be very easily called in groovy).
> 

I have Issues with Groovy, and wouldn't use it for anything because of
those to avoid showing any support whatsoever; apart from the fact I
don't really like it personally as a programming language. The JSR was a
way too underhanded stunt, and would probably mean I'd end up being
forced to program in Groovy (because it would be "standard") sooner or
later.

David Vallner


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